Nine To Noon for Wednesday 19 October 2022

 

09:05 Sisters Theresa and Angela launch the Gattung Foundation

Two sisters behind a new foundation say reducing inequalities for women and girls is top of their agenda. Theresa and Angela Gattung last night launched the Gattung Foundation, a charitable organisation that will focus on five areas the sisters really care about:  lifting female, Māori and Pasifika voices; growing stronger families; advancing education; reversing poverty cycles; and improving animal welfare. Theresa Gattung is a former CEO of Telecom and is a well-known business leader and philanthropist. She'll be a Trustee of the Gattung Foundation, while Angela, with an extensive background in education and the charitable sector will be its executive director. The pair join Kathryn to talk about why they've made this move, and the Foundation's objectives.

09.30 Wood makes solid construction comeback

Wood is making a comeback as the construction industry looks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from high carbon materials like concrete and steel. The government's Building for Climate Change programme has set a target of near-zero building related emissions by 2050. In Switzerland construction is underway on the world's tallest residential building with a load-bearing structure in wood. The 100-metre tall wooden apartment tower Rocket&Tigerli is being built by Scandinavian architect firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen. Its head of global innovation Enlai Hooi says the use of timber in high rise construction reduces carbon emissions, provides quality housing and reconnects people with nature. He's in New Zealand to speak to at an event organised by MidRise Wood Construction  and joins Kathryn to talk about how climate change is fuelling a wooden construction renaissance.

09:45 Australia: Jerusalem change, Medicare fraud, rape trial

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about the decision by the Albanese Government to reverse the Morrison Government's 2018 recognition of West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It's prompted Israel to call in the Australian ambassador in protest. A review of how Medicare's billing arrangement works is underway after ABC's 7.30 current affairs programme aired allegations of systemic fraud. The trial of Bruce Lehrmann, accused of raping former ministerial staffer Brittany Higgins, is nearly complete and Australian netball team the Diamonds are refusing to wear the logo of their new corporate sponsor - Hancock Prospecting.

10:05 Annie Proulx : How swamps can protect us and the planet

Pulitzer Prize winning American author Annie Proulx talks to Kathryn about her latest book, Fen, Bog and Swamp.
The 87 year old writes about the history of wetland destruction and the role it plays in the climate crisis and says swamps can protect against climate change if we only let them. The non fiction work presents the case for ignoring wetland destruction at our peril. The Shipping News and Brokebank Mountain are among Annie Proulx's most well known works of fiction, both which were made into movies.
    

10:35 Book review: People Person by Joanna Cho

Chris Tse reviews People Person by Joanna Cho, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press

10:45 The Reading

Another of the runners up from our Short Story Competition from last year. Finding your feet in this world can be challenging. That sense of isolation and disconnection in this story is palpable. We play Do You Feel the Air Shake? by Kelsey Dahlberg told by Dennis Lim.

11:05 Jazz pathways through NZ: gems from Wellington Jazz Festival, past and present  

Today kicks off Aotearoa New Zealand's biggest international jazz festival, the Wellington Jazz Festival. Music commentator Dave Wilson says it's a thrilling week for music lovers for the expansive range of musical styles under the broadest umbrella jazz can encapsulate. He looks at the mutual impact international artists and Kiwi audiences and musicians can have on each other, and features work from one artist at this year's festival and two from previous years.

11:20 The might and reach of Waiau Toa, the Clarence River 

In his book The Clarence: People and Places of Waiau Toa, rural journalist Tim Fulton explores more than 200 kilometres of mountains, rivers and valleys bordering Canterbury and Marlborough. Tim tells Kathryn his book is not exclusively a farming or a Pakeha settlement story, it also pays tribute to Maori settlement and ongoing connection to the area, as well as the people who have worked the rugged land for generations.

11:45 Science: Ocean warming, heavy metal planets, VR wine

Science correspondent Laurie Winkless joins Kathryn to talk about new research into how fast are oceans are warming - and the impact it might have. She'll look at the discovery of a heavy metal in the atmosphere of two, ultra-hot gas giants and how VR can now deliver you smell - in this case, wine in a virtual wine cellar!

 

Music played in this show

Track: We are Family 
Artist: Sister Sledge
Time played: 09:29

Track: Didn't Care 
Artist: Sylvan Esso
Time Played: 10:42